Jehovah’s Witness who strangled children for sexual pleasure jailed despite cover-up by congregation

A Jehovah’s Witness who took sexual pleasure from strangling young girls has been jailed.

Ian Pheasey, 54, went unpunished for years in part because his activities were ‘swept under the rug’ by the congregation at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Woodloes, Warwick.

His past caught up to him when a victim told police she was concerned about his new position at a hospice. He was jailed for five years after pleading guilty at Warwick Crown Court to assaulting one girl causing her actual bodily harm and two of indecently assaulting other girls, the Coventry Telegraph reports.

‘You obtain sexual gratification from the idea of strangling children,’ said Judge Griffith-Jones.